Shirt.



H. S. KENNEDY& C. M. CONNOLLY.

SHIRT. 7 APPLICATION FILED JULY 3.1911.

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HOWARD s. KENNEDY AND CHARLES CONNOLLY, or TROY, ew Yon- ASSIGNORS, BYMEISNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CLUETT, PEABODY AND 00., Inc, or TROY, NEW YORK,

SHIRT.

Application filed July 3, 1911.;

7 0 all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that we, HOWAR S. KEN- NEDY and CHARLES M. CONNOLLY, each acitizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer,and State of. New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Shirts, of which the following, is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of thenovelconstruction and combination of partshereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may behad to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figurestherein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a rear view of an open-front shirt having apocket in the neckband provided with a buttonhole made in accordancewith our invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the pocket-portion of the 'neckband.

The body and neckband of the shirtare shown in a somewhat distortedposition for convenience of illustration.

The principal object of the invention is to facilitate the insertion ofa stud or collar-button in a wall of a pocket in a garment formed toreceive the base of said stud or button.

In laundried articles of apparel, such as shirts, it has been founddesirable in order to protect the body of the wearer from contact withthe base of a stud or collar-button, to provide the buttonhole-band ofthe article with a pocket adapted to receive the base of the stud orcollar-button, the outer-wall of the pocket being provided with abuttonhole through which said stud or button is adapted to be inserted.

As such pockets have been heretofore constructed they ordinarily comefrom the laundry with the walls of the pocket tightly starched together,rendering access to the buttonhole possible only by pulling open thepocket from bottom to top thereof before the stud or collar-button canbe in serted throughthe buttonhole.

Under such conditions it is usually also found that the walls of thebuttonhole are tightly adherent to each other by reason of theaccumulation of starch in the buttonhole during the laundryingoperation.

In carrying out our invention we are able Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1918.

Serial No. 636,584.

to largely avoid such difiiculties by making the buttonholein the formof a notch or open slit extending inward from the outer edge of theouter-wall of the pocket, making it unnecessary for the stud to beinserted within the pocket before it can be inserted through thebuttonhole-as in constructions heretofore employed.

By theuse of our invention, all that is required is to slightly raisethe corners of the outer pocket-wall at the mouth of the buttonhole-slitto permit .the base of the stud or button to pass thereunder and then toforce the stud inward along said slit or notch until it reaches theeyelet-end thereof.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred.form, 1, represents the body of the shirt and,2, the neckband thereofwhich opens, in front and has its ends secured together byastud orbutton, 3, inserted through buttonholes formed in the ends of the bandin the usual manner.

At the back, where the bandis closed,- it is formed with a pocket 4:,which may be constructed in any known manner.

The outer-wall of the pocket is provided with a notch or slit, 5, whichextends inward from the edge of said wall and preferably terminates inan eyelet-end, 6, adapted to freely receive the shank of the stud orcollarbutton.

In the use of the article so made, the corners of the outer-wall of thepocket adjacent to the slit if adherent, can be slightly raised so as topartly insert the base of the stud or collar-button therebeneath, afterwhich the stud can be forced freely into the pocket, its shank travelingalong the slit until it reaches and occupies the eyelet-end, 6.

The stud can be thus inserted if desired after it has been inserted inthe collar, which operation is impossible with buttonholes formed in theordinary manner in the neckband.

In like manner it is unnecessary to remove the stud from the collar inseparating the collar from the shirt as the stud can be removed from thepocket by a simple downward pull.

The slit, 5, is preferably made slightly V- shaped or flaring at itsmouth to facilitate the entrance of the shank of the stud.

The neckband being attached to the shirt at the back, when the shirt islaundried forms a practically continuous surface comprising the backwall of the pocket andga plurality of plies of fabric and provided suchextension thereof as is formed by the inner plies of the neckband andthe back of the shirt. The continuous surface thus formed serves as aguide for the base of a or slit;

It is thus only necessary to forcethe back part of the collar down overthe back of the shirt until the base of the back-stud in the collar isbelow the neckb'and of the shirt, and then by pressing inward upon thestud and drawing the back part of the collar upward, the base of thestud can be slid along the continuous surface formed by the back of theshirt and the inner wall of the pocket until the base of the stud isguided into the pocket and the shank of the stud into the notch.

\Vhat we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is a l. Alaundried article of apparel having a stud-pocket with a buttonhole-slitin the outer wall of said pocket extending inward from the edge thereofand adapted to receive the shank of a stud or collar-button inserted insaid pocket, the inner wall of with a stud-pocket formed between certainof its plies, said neckband being provided with a buttonhole-slit inthe'outer wall of 7 said pocket extending upward from the lower edgethereof and terminating in an eyelet-end adapted to receive the shank ofa stud or collar-button inserted in said pocket,

the inner wall of said pocket being extended,

beyond the slitted edge of its outer wall, forming a surface along whichthe base of the stud can be slid into said slit.

3. A laundried article of apparel having a stud-pocket with a'buttonhole-slit in the outer wall of said pocket extending inward fromthe edge thereof and adapted to receive the shank of a studorcollar-button inserted in said pocket, the inner wall of said pocketand the body of the article of apparel forming a substantiallycontinuous surface ex tending beyond the slitted edge of said outer wallalong which surface the base of the stud can slide in entering thepocket.

In testimony whereof, We have hereunto set our hands this 28th day ofJune, .1911.

HOWARD s. KENNEDY. CHARLES M. OONNOLLY.

Witnesses:

THOMAS C. STONE, JAMES OSBORNE.

I Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. (3.

